Recognizing Our Solution Partners for Their Development Contributions

Contributions from our solution partner community and developers are fundamental to Magento Commerce. From innovative extensions to security patches, our community helps us offer best-in-class technology to merchants around the globe.

We are immensely grateful to the partners who actively participate in the development of the platform and, to recognize their efforts, we are launching a program that will track and reward Magento Solution Partners for their contributions.

Contribution Reward Program

We know that our solution partners are a unique source of knowledge about the real issues our shared clients are dealing with when developing eCommerce solutions. We want to award these contributions, especially those which are focused on quality, solving common problems and sharing best practices with all the community.

How will this program work? We will keep track of every pull request (PR) from solution partners and we will promote their contributions. Magento uses GitHub for source code version control, and GitHub Pull Requests (PRs) are the best way to deliver fixes to the Magento source code.

Types of Contributions

We will recognize achievements of the partners in the following categories:

Quantity of Contributions – Rewards partners who have made the highest number of contributions

Complexity of Contributions – Rewards contributions that required time or deep platform knowledge for implementation

Category of Expertise – Tracks contributions per components to help navigate merchants to the partner with compatible expertise

The Award Point System

The award points system assigns a certain amount of points for every rewarded achievement. Every achievement has different weight. Depending on the weight of achievement, different amount of points will be assigned. Points will be assigned in different categories. Total PR weight is a aggregated points number from all categories. Points are used to rank the partners in a unified way and partners with more points are always higher in rank.

Points received from contributions will be shared with the Magento Solution Partner team, and top performing partners are granted Magento Activity Points (MAPs) that convert into MDF, according to the rules of the Magento Solution Partner Program. The number of MAPs and top performers rewarded will be determined later.

About the Magento Community Engineering Team

The Magento Community Engineering team has outstanding progress processing the pull requests from the community. Here are the numbers to date:

Processed: 950+ PR’s

Merged: 550+ PR’s

Outstanding: <25 PR’s

Processed by Community Maintainers: 65+ PR’s

We also continuously work with the community members who contribute to Magento Commerce and regularly recognize their efforts. In addition, our recent initiative to open up internal repositories for partner developers will allow us to accept code contributions to Magento Commerce (formerly Magento Enterprise Edition) as well as Magento Open Source (formerly Magento Community Edition). This will better inform partners of the latest changes in Magento Commerce and help them file issues related to it, with the same process used for Magento Open Source.

Ready to participate?

To start participating in this Contributions Reward program, write the Magento Community Engineering team via email engcom@magento.com. We will help you get started with these few easy steps:

Retrieve a list of developers and their GitHub accounts

Add participating developers to the Slack channel and GitHub organization

Sign CLA

Walk through instructions on how to create PR to the Magento Commerce code